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Events
Each year EPS hosts events designed to expand educational opportunities, create interactions with policymakers, keep student and faculty up to date on new developments, enhance career opportunities, and just relax and have fun.
Current Schedule for SIPA-Earth Institute Practicum: Environmental Science and Policy
Speakers
EPS students regularly attend lectures, brown bags, and conferences on environmental issues across campus. EPS hosts and/or co-hosts a number of lunchtime brown bag speakers as well as several evening events throughout the year. Students are strongly encouraged to work with the EPS Concentration Program office to develop ideas and invite speakers. Examples of past events EPS held last year:
Sociology Professor Dana Fisher speaks on National Governance and the Global Climate Change Regime
Juergen Trittin, German Minister for the Environment, Nature Conservation, and Nuclear Safety speaks on Globalization, Trade, and International Environmental Governance
A Debate with Serge Lepeltier, French Minister for the Environment and Sustainable Development
Columbia Professor Art Small speaks on his recent research endeavors involving greenhouse gas trading markets.
Democratic Leadership for the 21st Century's Environmental Committee and Columbia University's Environmental Policy Studies present: New York Region Environmental Transportation Policy with Congressman Jerold Nadler, Albert Appleton, Senior Fellow w/ Regional Plan Association.
Sarayaku: Oil, Human Rights and the Environment in the Ecuadorian Amazon.
There are regular lecture series across Columbia that may also be of interest to EPS students, including the CERC Seminar Program, LDEO Earth Science Colloquium, IRI Lecture Series, Columbia Earth Institute's Distinguished Lecture Series, Columbia Earth Institute's Cross-Cutting Initiatives Lecture Series, and Biological Anthropology Seminars. Attending these lectures helps to integrate our students into the environmental community at Columbia.
Career Panels and Alumni Events
EPS hosts career and alumni events offering students the chance to network with professionals in the environmental field and learn about their work and job search experiences. In years prior, EPS hosted the following events:
EPS Career Panel featuring SIPA's EPS graduates
EPS Internship Panel featuring 2nd year students sharing their summer internship experiences
EPS Annual alumni networking dinner
Job Fairs
In April 2004, The Earth Institute at Columbia Umiversity hosted the first Yale/Cornell/Columbia Environmental Job Fair, which brought public agencies, consulting firms, nonprofit organizations and business and industry groups to Columbia's campus. In April 2005, Columbia expanded the event to include all Ivy League Institutions. The next All Ivy Environmental Career Fair will be held in Spring 2006.
The Office of Career Services hosts an annual career fair in Washington DC during the Winter break. This is a good opportunity for students looking for a job in the public sector.
Non-academic Activities
Each year the EPS concentration organizes a weekend retreat or a picnic get-together allowing students to become better acquainted with one another and relax in an informal setting.
Happy hours are also scheduled throughout the year to introduce SIPA students to other Columbia environmental students.
If there is sufficient interest, EPS may organize trips to the Museum of Natural History, attend local environmental events, present the occasional environmental film, and coordinate with other environmental groups and institutions on campus.